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I am an author and writer of 16 books on the Amazon Kindle. My Kindle books Birth Order: How the Roles of Each Sibling are Placed at Birth? and The Evolution of the Squared Circle: The Production of Professional Wrestling have been Hot New Releases for Amazon. The Enlightened Way: How the Zen Path Can Help with Depression? was a number 1 best seller in Canada.
Recently he has been writing for about one month for Earth. We are one. Articles that feature health and news.
Now this writer finds himself coming up with new and exciting projects and this blog is one of them.

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My Early Stories of High School Pressures about 20 Years Ago

I figure this would be a good time to discuss a little bit about High School pressures and how I dealt with the high school stress. 20 years ago I wrote short writings called The Passage of Joe: The Memoires of Junior Year in High School, which will be released later this year on April 28, 2016 on the Amazon Kindle. In this book, I talked about my troubles I faced in high school such as dealing with peer pressure, self-esteem issues, romance struggles, and trying to gain acceptance amongst my classmates.

High School was a struggle. My Freshman year I was heavily picked on even bullied to get the lunches for the other students. I was a shy boy and I was afraid to stand up for myself then. At the time, I was a new kid in school and I didn’t know a lot of people. I could have stood up for myself, but I was heavily outnumbered. Many in school feel these pressures and face bullying by other students.

Looking back in retrospect, it helped toughen me up for the jobs I did in the future and helped me accept the authority figures of a work setting that many people don’t accept. That leads to another story at another time.

But that year 20 years in high school I started to develop my self-esteem from writing these short passages. I vented out on paper and I got it out of my system and shared it to a few people.

In a way, I became included in the class by starting to act like myself. They enjoyed when I was acting wild and howling. My nickname was “Wolfman Joe” and I lived up to it. However, at the same time I want my thoughts to be approved meaning I wanted to have them know me for me, but I didn’t know how to do it. In a way, it was the struggle that Micheal J. Fox’s character Scott Howard faced in TEEN WOLF (1985). Little did I know, my classmates went through similar struggles, it wasn’t just me.

I wasn’t the smartest in school or the coolest or the best dressed, but I had passion in my future. I was thinking about one day graduating from College and starting my life.

Since then I faced life, but I’m happy to say I’m doing what I wanted to do since high school and my life has come full circle as I release the Kindle book The Passage of Joe. My very first writings that I did taking it seriously.

My advice for high school students, don’t worry that much about fitting in because when you get to 40 years old as I heard in a Terri Savelle Foy podcast they won’t matter. So focus on improving yourself.

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Joseph Evaldi

I am an author and writer of 16 books on the Amazon Kindle. My Kindle books Birth Order: How the Roles of Each Sibling are Placed at Birth? and The Evolution of the Squared Circle: The Production of Professional Wrestling have been Hot New Releases for Amazon. The Enlightened Way: How the Zen Path Can Help with Depression? was a number 1 best seller in Canada.
Recently he has been writing for about one month for Earth. We are one. Articles that feature health and news.
Now this writer finds himself coming up with new and exciting projects and this blog is one of them.
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